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• I have found a very good suntan oil or actually my mom has found it for me because I can't go see for myself. It is called P20 from Riemann. It is expensive but you don't need much to rub your body in and you only have to use it 1-2 times a day to be protected for the whole day.
• Are you thinking about buying an electric blanket, but are you doubting because you are, just as I, allergic to electricity? Then try the following: put the blanket between 2 large towels so that the blanket doesn't touch the mattress and quilt, turn on the blanket a few hours before you go to sleep and just before you step into bed pull the blanket out. This way I can tolerate an electric heated bed somewhat better.... maybe it also works for you.
• I finally got a bath lift from WVG. It wasn't easy to get it and it took over a year, but I got it. PHOTO
• If you have trouble with your vision I got the following tip from someone. You can adjust the font size on your computer to the size which is easy for you to read. I use this tip for several years now; it's so common for me that I don't see it as a tip anymore, but maybe some of you didn't know this tip yet.
• You can also adjust the screen of your computer (for example in word, outlook, excel etc) in for example a soft colour. White hurts my eyes and makes reading even more difficult. That's why I always have a soft window colour like soft yellow or soft grey. Of course it's also possible to get it in negative.
• I got the following great tip from someone to disable all animated images and banners on all websites => start Internet Explorer and Go to:
- Extra
- Internet Options
- choose tab blat Advanced
- scroll down to Multimedia
- uncheck "play animations on web pages" (3rd option, it can have another name, I'm using the Dutch version of IE)
• Because I am not alone and there is no-one here to for example put on the lights for me and because I still don't know where I come to live or that I can stay here, my dad made a solution for the light-problem. I have always the same 2 lights on, namely a salt crystal lamp and the blue Christmas lights (yep I have always Christmas *LOL* these lights have a real soft light for my eyes). At my bed I have a connector with power-points and an on/off-switch. In the connector sits 1 plug on which the 2 earlier mentioned lights are connected. If I want the lights on I push the switch to 'on' (meaning power available), if I want them off I of course push the switch to 'off' (no power).
• With the heating I have the same problems as with the lights and beside that the control for the heating hangs too high for me to reach it from my wheelchair (this is also with the controls of the big lamps like the spots hanging down from the ceiling). This is solved with a bell thermostat and of course it has been put lower in wheelchair-height. The bell thermostat is now been put on 2 stand (it has a max. of 8 stands); the first stand is the time I usually just about awake and the 2nd stand is when I go to sleep, both of course with a different temperature. You can also operate the thermostat with the telephone or computer, but this has still to be sorted out and you also need a few other equipments or stuff. But that way I should be able to for example turn up the heating when I am cold, which now isn't possible... now when I am cold I have bad luck and have to wait till my carer arrives to turn up the heating.
As for curtains/blinds etc. I don't have a solution yet. I think that this can only be solved with an Environmental Control System, but this I have to appeal for at my health insurance and because I still don't know what/where will be my home I can't appeal for anything like this yet.

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